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Get started today Prudential.com/plan for both insurance Company of America in New Jersey morning. I'm Jane Pauling and this is a very special edition Sunday morning writing one day early. The 40th anniversary of Sunday morning's very first broadcast on January 28, 1979. Birthday Thomas all through the morning will be looking back at some of our favorite moments will be revisiting special places remembering notable conversations taking a second look at outstanding performances and great art while also making time for life's lighter side.

But we began at the beginning the morning. I'm Charles golf… Sunday morning program about our future preoccupation with television journals and build around her shoulders very often. From the very beginning Sunday morning has stayed true to Charles Kuralt vision to make sure those subjects out there do all the world changed so did we not 1994 after 50 years of Sunday morning. Charles Kuralt said goodbye in his own inimitable style would lose all I want this to stay with you, but there I go by. Good morning. I'm Charles Osgood.

This is Sunday morning. I know it sounds strange to me to. Charles did his best to fill Kuralt to the next 22 years. Charles II informed and delighted me table resolutions two years ago I turned again in the new chapter began right here try our best each week to stay true to Sunday mornings original whatever road we travel on our goal remains the same. Take our viewers, all of you wherever something is television program more leisurely and experimental. The most we hope broadcast.

After all, our inaugural year 1979.

Like every year, provided plenty of news. March brought the partial meltdown at Pennsylvania's 3 mile Island nuclear power plant may saw the election of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, while in November, Iranian students sees those American hostages at the US Embassy in Tehran. The start of a more than year long standoff 1979. Also saw the deaths of Hollywood leading man John Wayne composer Richard Rogers half of the legendary Broadway duo Rogers and Hammerstein and that most famous of circus clowns Emmett Kelly and beginning with that first year.

All of us in Sunday morning have been on the move few more than our Lee Cowan was here to log our travels admiringly. You can sort of think of this broadcast almost like a Sunday drive for 40 years. We meandered from exotic destinations to the Monday from out-of-the-way places were very own backyards so that you could enjoy the view without moving image morning was born in part affliction in case of wanderlust when Francis Johnson shortage one just couldn't help himself as well, but it helps.

On any given Sunday. Thank you from the largest ball of twine in Minnesota attempt to unravel communism in Beijing giant Sequoia trees in California Sierra more than 2000 years old four years and try to maintain you darkness of the harsh winters like it nearly impossible to maintain a Europa interest in exploring the topic and the determination of freezing scientists researching the bottom of setting majors. As we trekked through our national parks 59 of them.

You know walking across sand and soil. The lowest point in the United States to the base of our highest peak from the brilliant pastel colors mother nature can paint shades of space as a spiritual experience is very spiritual heavens go.

We haven't gone we got pretty close visit to the Vatican 5B is even joining. On the language born won't go's keep practicing crazy children on the frigid shores of Iceland letting their hands to help wayward puffins take their first flight out to see we encountered some wayward polar bears so little too close for comfort. My there were more cats than we could count on an island off sale on ships of old and aboard the ships of tomorrow video monitor for railway stadiums and hovered over cities with photographer preferred his helicopter have no doubt forget about after a while we rolled on the rails of the maharaja's express take the wheel and vehicle herself shaping now and trying to turn this ancient capital into a modern one. Every year bring strong the way we stopped off in place. Building Museum on New York's Fifth Avenue is one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century museums you've heard of. It's the Elvis is alive Museum and those you probably have national pie championships, world Beard and mustache championships and competitions. 140 had the privilege of watching the sunset better than it's pouring rain is knowing the next set morning. We've always found time for stories from the heart. Stories of insight and compassion that show people great and small. At their best. Tracy Smith has been looking back at a few of the ones that touched us the most. Morning Tracy morning chain when it comes to revisiting some of those pieces, there may be no better place to begin with the man who showed all of us how it's done Jim Richardson back in town taking more pictures whose deepest interest is in the lives of 300 people of Cuba cancels Sunday morning's first anchor Charles Kuralt was also its storyteller in chief Jim Richardson talk about the people Kubrick's about the children raised her you understand why he comes back your rafter here to record ordinary American lives in such a way.

Kuralt was long known for capturing the humanity and grace found in everyday life and the rest of Sunday mornings gangsta made inroads of their own. This summer was turned 13 moving to a new school can be a scary thing, especially when you know that growing up and growing tall are not the same stories about life's challenges became something of a signature three-year-old Edie Gilder is more familiar with doctor's bag than any kid should be, and along the way. Pretty inspiring people came into view.

Wonder what happened to that little girl. You can call me to keep food deep to sell 43 years ago that I was the day that defined the rest of your life that day. Navies community swimming pool I made was cash and aluminum cans. Start saving your stubborn can buy can the nickels and dimes added up to more than 6 million cans collected seemingly on eatable that paralleled. The very moment that I had cancer. My kids knew Juliet Williams hopes her daughters won't fear her death. Sometimes you practice your instrument. I close my eyes so I can better she's written a letter to reassure the girls after their mother is gone and when I do I am often overcome this absolute knowing that the music beckoned me and I will be there. We were there when those leaving the limelight revealed they are more vulnerable when to say was diagnosed with. We got that.

I feel it anywhere exhausted. That's forgetfulness begins most mornings with some yoga's willingness to be shown on network television certainly finished state is a testament to her courage and surprising absence of sometimes things got personal. My husband apparently he and everyone else in the class has Parkinson's. Sometimes saw father of the bride is the first to see his daughter and her wedding was on the verge of tears and beyond. Some stories didn't just think they were almost cool and not a lot of teams that play hard.

You have your child be using your flout easy run oatmeal percussion. These say I played the heart. So what do these tales have in common. I clicked my skiing on it was never felt before, like some jams there rare their precious and hot; you and each one is doing. I learned by being engaged with people who were different for me. All I want is the world's direction. Our distinctive sons Sunday morning trademark. Many of you asked us just how we choose them a question. Serena also is happy to finally answer. No one can control the weather, but there is someone at CVS make the sun come out, you are officially the keeper of the sun right. This is quite a responsibility meet our associate director Jessica Frank for 20 years she's been handpicking every shining example of sun artwork to appear on our program. That's about 9000 and counting to dream about.

I do this woman has sent me some come from the same place you ours. They come with great notes and each one has a story. I watch Sunday morning since the day it aired tradition started decades ago when the first unsolicited sons showed up in our mailbox.

I love this one because it has sent on the front.

Charles Kuralt on the back. This is a hot C see this is a personal favorite there made from every material under the sun, then vegetables and pieces of broken glass in seashells and chili peppers, Post-it notes, crunched up little pieces and we Jessica finds her inspiration. I have my watching the stories themselves and sometimes and stops by to cheer her on this. Is this you special some some sons she uses as soon as she gets them, others she saves for a rainy day. I have a son for four years or five years and I don't have a place for it and then I watched how think I can finally use the whatever son you know I get so excited. There was never any question about the sons she gets every year from Jim Stella's high school art class and will Adelphia she's used about 60 of them so far. Hello Mr. Stella back in 2015 after Stella sent in his first batch. Jessica wrote the teacher a note, I am allowed at the beauty of the sons I love to use them on our show.

Your students are enormously gifted and I am truly honored that you would think of submitting them to us. All the best Jessica Frank out of the class feel when you first heard back from Jessica. I gave the line, which is a make you famous second by second, did you ever think when you started out in television at CVS that you would somehow land here now.

Now, absolutely not. Somebody told me to draw son.

It would be a disaster and thankfully she doesn't need to list entertainers to politicians and athletes, tycoons and writers. We visited with them all so let's talk about it with Rita braver morning Rita good morning Jane. Over the years we've been able to bring our viewers interviews with some of the most meeting people in public life. We think they were interesting, you'll probably agree.

Whenever I asked Pres. Nixon you have knowledge or was he involved in Watergate. I was assured by him personally. He was not there were past presidents you think what it is saying that you think maybe you've had a better ex-president saving presidency.

Let maybe through Vernon my reputation has been better in the post president and future presidents Donald Trump showing Wayne Gould here fixtures in the bathroom that was a choice that was a choice we made a lady like to become someone real.

I think I am good, but that doesn't mean that I am complacent or resolved about what happened. It still is very painful. It hurts a lot and the pain was inherent as well. When we spoke to Sen. Edward Kennedy about his brother JFK's love for his daughter Caroline little games they play a great sense of joy that they share is difficult. We witnessed history with the eyes of those who were there civil rights plan year.

John Lewis took us back to the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he was brutally beaten in 1965 point why and we learned how spiritual leaders like that Dalai Lama experience joy but mentally peace is all we scoped out prodigies, including very young tiger would accept because I'm not relaxing all pumped up and I just which with champions. When I went to the ballpark. I tried to do things different sometime and make sure the when I didn't have a real I didn't know that the young girls were supposed to jump and skip all you try to be cool yourself. All right, this note again ready and we introduced our viewers to some of the leading literary lights of our time how you feel about critics, playwrights, poets, when we talk.

God whatever language.

However, we see it please put how about making magic that inspired a generation of young readers.

I never thought I was. There is nothing we learned how titans of business think you've had some stomach churning days. Not very many know if the market is falling or something like that.

That's opportunity for us. We got in the mood with the original Playboy to ignite the flame of pride heard from musicians find entire before Neville be free to believe that there will be free, riveted, and we learned that worrying about getting it right. Progress I progress never arrived and I'm still learning all the time we put the biggest stars of the big screen onto your screen. Who knew Tom Hanks had a soft spot for typewriter fine mentally.

So many interviews but for me, well, there are couple I will never forget Garfunkel's self-analysis.

I know myself to be a creative guy and I think my profile show business is the right shoulder and this irrepressible Oscar-winner. So if you had some strictly weekly. She liked Shirley McClain go there. I'm a musical comedy performer who dabbles in spirituality and Julie Murray. Everything will be all right morning.

Charles Kuralt travels on the road. Steve Hartman carries on that tradition these days finding the stories everyone else has missed most of being a good neighbor means the occasional social love Kathy, but Kathy felt Sandy Utah says whatever your standard pills compared to what her neighbors did for what was your reaction. I cried, just like now. So Kathy's miracle began about 10 years ago. Her MS in progress to the point where she could even get into bed and since she lived alone. The only logical long-term solution seem to be a nursing home until one day the guy next door came over and presented Kathy with a list a list of about 60 men from willing to come over. I continue to put Kathy to take off her slippers to cover socks. One guy gets on one side and one guy gets on their side but on the bed the process yet have a pillow under this book. Things need to be just so she probably says I feel good old covers and she's tucked in for the night. Really the kiss out these two sons and an aid morning with this nightly ritual has been going on seven days a week for 10 years now were going to be here as long as she needs us buyer is the main organizer.

Our challenge is to get everybody at time more volunteers would.

This is a great neighborhood houses for sale you want to call the realtor to which he first started soliciting volunteers. He says not everyone was a natural Florence might I can't say I was excited hope that I'll tell you that communism is home is a woman and I have no help care background at all. Phone and it was most this man did you want to do this. His name is John Keller no John now admits the only reason he agreed to help Kathy was because he knew he would look bad if you did that's hard for me to say I had always considered myself the good person Christian.

Then I realized maybe in lots I wanted to be a better person today.

John says the simple lifting Kathy, week after week, has made him a profoundly better person. A good reminder that burdens are sometimes six in disguise time now salute my son morning predecessor Charles Osgood who of course will forever be the poet laureate of CBS seems this morning.

Charlie has a little competition from our senior contributor Ted Koppel it's been for Dick. You know what used to be. Norms are just different to change their completely transform the things we relied on to say is a new world much better world's for example when driving. We once employed maps directions to get there before change you want to stretch the nervous exhaustion before those pre-days we start the phone, made our plans out of paper before were drones sent our film to be processed and then we would point now our cameras and digital versions that great. You can upload download.

It's really quite quick in the flesh it's transferred to stick its old show convenient even at home. You can use search engine to check your genome. It's hard to remember we weren't always freed his home on old DVD stroller voice which free.

You three gives us when so much has changed. There's a tendency to your for something from something like an old shoe something substantive, warm, and reliable. Yes Sunday morning old maraca.

I got a brand-new podcast. It's all about people who have long fascinated me. One thing they got in common. Gerald had the name of my brand-new podcast obituaries from the 20th century's greatest entertainer.

He could play any likening father just doesn't seem to get much respect. Everything wrong, so there's no statue.

There's no signature on the Declaration of Independence learn new things about people you thought you knew where that the day of your inauguration died. Who aren't we not have the right for the because the Fonz became the old so join me this premier season of obituaries all you loyal viewers know we close each Sunday morning with a peaceful moment of nature.

So how do our camera people get those pictures we asked Connor night to find out just barely, if you leave it up on the right for Scott Miller is already out on the lake with his camera.

This is church will eventually spend all day in this cypress, winding around Caddo Lake in East Texas to degrade egrets you going believe that the writer that are backlit and green lily pads to create what amounts to just one minute of television when I try to capture the very lucky that I got up like a really difficult to romanticize travels taken him from the vastness of the Valley of the gods in Southeast Utah to the serenity of Walden Pond in Concorde Massachusetts is captured a charismatic fox, snowy grand Teton national Park in Wyoming and an elusive alligator at Aransas National wildlife refuge in Texas a lot of places that most people never experienced very special part of the network all across the country capture, 27 Hour Dr. away in northwest Nevada right behind some desert bighorn sheep and obviously because we have come to record him running to record them not been finding too many family you first got out and saw them appear we were listening to your Mike on our audio setup part so fast that we could hear it excitement for shooting our nature.

Moments ranging from fees in the central valley of California to porcupines in snowy antelope Island, Utah mountains of sometimes.

His favorite subject is what you see and spend an afternoon recording wind at canyonlands National Park. You just stop and listen. It's amazing what you hear.

Ever since their debut in 1979.

We thought you might like a couple minutes of silence. Silence, interrupted only by the cries of bird have avoided showcasing man-made structures may sound like says those places are getting harder and harder to find us thinking back on the ones I've done in the past and how much more difficult it is to not have a jet flying overhead out of a leaf blower firing up down the street, or traffic going by and assist the state of our natural world. If you did away with it right when I meet people and tell them what I do for living that show the sea that makes me happy. It tells me that there's some hope that people feel strongly about this stuff pretty television reporter. It is more than a little humbling to find out that the most beloved part of our show is the moment that doesn't show a single person really, how could I ever compete with this. I'm Jane Pauley. When our trumpet sounds to launch our next 40 years. Next Sunday morning progress and crazy time is the point is we people in the best way to protect people final season Millstream